Consultant Cardiologist / Electrophysiologist with a specialist interest in Inherited Arrhythmia Syndrome, St Bartholomew’s Hospital; Clinical Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, UK
William Young completed his medical degree at University College London in 2011 along with an intercalated BSc in Human Genetics, for which he received 1st class honours. He completed his PhD in cardiovascular genetics at Queen Mary University of London in 2022. During this time, he performed the largest genetic studies to date for electrocardiographic-derived measures of ventricular repolarisation and depolarisation. In September 2022, he secured a position as a NIHR funded Academic Clinical Lecturer at the centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, QMUL. His clinical activities as a Consultant Electrophysiologist are at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and he is co-lead of the Barts Inherited Arrhythmia Service.
His research interests include the genetic basis of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis, risk stratification and inherited channelopathies.